We love, we create, we work hard, we build attachments and connections with other people. The things we hold on to give us identity and purpose. But when we hold on to things too tightly there’s great pain when they’re suddenly wrenched from us. The challenge then is to recognize that even when we suffer loss, it really wasn’t ours to lose.
I am blessed. This weekend I have been surrounded by my family and my friends. And as I was considering what to write about this week, I just kept coming back to a sense of thankfulness. So I dedicate this Monday morning to seven of the many, many thing for which I am thankful.
When we hold things inside it hinders trust and cooperation and leads to lies, deceit, and mistrust, and ultimately it leads to a breakdown of communication and intimacy. The lack of confession in my life affects how I interact with those around me and with God, I’m finding, in surprising ways.
Lately I’ve been thinking about how different our world is from what people experienced in the past, even 500 years ago, let alone back in the Garden of Eden or after the fall. And I was thinking about how different the world will be after Christ returns, after there are new heavens and a new earth, after everything is restored and made new.
U2’s Bono sat down for an interview with Focus on The Family earlier this year. In it he talks about his personal faith, grace, his family, and the ONE campaign. At times through the music of U2, and certainly through his activism, Bono seems to express a personal faith in the things Jesus taught, perhaps in spite of his reluctance to brand himself with the name “Christian.”
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